This immense fissure is known locally as “THE ABYSS” and it…

This immense fissure is known locally as “THE ABYSS” and it’s one of our favorite places to go for a release walk. The trailhead is a short drive from home and the trek up to where the fissure lay is a rapid ascent through beautiful meadow/arbutus grove terrain.
On the way there are several petroglyphs marked into the hard rock and I wonder just how much more we would uncover if we stripped the moss.
Drawings thousands of years old.
The Abyss itself is a bit of an enigma. The theoretical consensus is that it was a seismic event that cracked this sucker. I think it might be something a little different. I think the crack came as a result of this behemoth landing where it did after being ejected from one of the cascade range volcanoes on the other side of the strait.
I imagine the last big cataclysm event had huge boulders being thrown around all over the place by volcanoes

We have no idea just what kind of power our solar system can exhibit when ouch comes to shove. I’ve always had this deep feeling that I was going to be alive for the next one.
This big crack, which apparently we haven’t explored the bottom of, though I’m sure it’s filled with the corpses of many a beast who’ve stumbled in.
It’s a joy to head up here with my boys. Gets me thinking about geology and our future and damn arbutus trees are a special breed. My favorite and the only grow in this part of the world.

What a treat!!